"This Is My Task"

Sermon

By: Aimee Semple McPherson

Date: March 12, 1939

Source: McPherson, Aimee Semple. "This Is My Task." Sermon delivered at Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, March 12, 1939. Transcript available online at http://www.libertyharbor.org/sermon.htm; website home page: http://www.libertyharbor.org (accessed February 12, 2003).

About the Author: American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), a popular preacher in the 1920s and 1930s, was a nonbeliever until the age of 17 when she met a Scottish evangelist, Robert Semple, who helped to convert her. They married in 1908 and he died shortly after. In 1913 she married Harold S. McPherson. Five years later that marriage ended in divorce and McPherson began her life as a lay—untrained and unordained—evangelist and conducted many...

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